Congrats, Momoko @prunus-persica123.bsky.social and all! Excited to see how our former postdoc's work unfolded the mutual inhibitory mechanism bet/w EPFL2 peptide hormone & auxin underpins the intervals of auxin maxima 🌿🔬🥳 Just published @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Well done, Akie! Identification of a peptide hormone-receptor module bypassing the ABA signaling to close stomata upon drought. A big breakthrough🍃😊 -Local peptide signalling induces stomatal closure under drought stress @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genome editing of goldenberry ERECTA for crop ideotype. Congrats, Zach Lippman, Joyce Van Eck & the team! "Engineering compact Physalis peruviana to promote its potential as a global crop". ERECTA rock😉 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📣 Nominations are now being accepted for the 2026 ASPB Awards. It is important that ASPB honor the most notable achievements and contributions of plant scientists worldwide.🌱 👉 The deadline is Friday, February 13! buff.ly/ziJ3tAt. #plantscience

CSHL - Plant Genomes, Systems Biology & Engineering 2025 Meeting. At the poster session. Just wonderful to meet w/ talented Early Career Scientists 🥰🧬🌱. I learned so much from this broader plant bio meeting. Thanks, Cyril, Becky, and Beth for the invitation! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Last week, I had the chance to participate in the XVII Chilean Society for Plant Biology meeting 🤩. Inspiring talks from colleagues in Chile and invited speakers @keikoutorii.bsky.social, Malcolm Bennett, @gabkrouk.bsky.social , José Feijó and many others. Looking forward to the next edition!

Calling all postdocs! Applications are open for Dept. of Molecular Biosciences 3rd Trailblazers Postdoctoral Symposium @utaustin.bsky.social. Come to Austin, meet your peers, showcase your work. Application is easy and all expenses are paid! Spread the word! tinyurl.com/yw7ffjn9

Somos las biólogas vegetales! Santiago, Chile 🌱🇨🇱🥰　#WomenInScience

Congrats, Momoko @prunus-persica123.bsky.social and all! Excited to see how our former postdoc's work unfolded the mutual inhibitory mechanism bet/w EPFL2 peptide hormone & auxin underpins the intervals of auxin maxima 🌿🔬🥳 Just published @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧬🧪Research Technician Position Open🧬🧪 HHMI, UT Austin. Biochemistry/Biophysics- Assist recombinant protein expression, purification and structural analysis (protein NMR and CryoEM) to uncover the mechanisms of cell fate specification in plants. hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

🧬🌱Research Specialist Position Open🌱🧬 -Please spread the words HHMI, UT Austin. NGS-based analyses/single cell biology to investigate environmental and hormonal control of plant stem cell differentiation. Requires both wet lab and bioinformatic skills. hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Tenure-Track Plant Biology Assistant Professor position at UT Austin MBS. Review of the applications starts Nov. 1! Please spread the words🤠🌱🌼🌽🫛🍃🌾 jobs.plantae.org/jobs/2176440...

Why plant embryos do not differentiate stomata? Discovery of the key peptide hormone. Embryo-specific peptide EPFL8, perceived by ERECTA, inhibits SPCH in a TMM-independent manner. Excellent work by the Torii Lab alumnus, Prof. Xingyun Qi. Congrats🌱🔬! academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

My commentary published in Current Biology! “Plant regeneration: Breaking the silence of totipotency by reprogramming a stomatal precursor cell” Full text available → authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...

"Tenure-Track Faculty Position - Plant Interkingdom Environment Interaction and or Plant Immunity at University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA *Application Deadline: 11/1/2025" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=Torii_10-16-25.pdf #PlantSciJobs

Congrats, Joe Ecker @salkinstitute.bsky.social, to receiving the McClintock Prize! Joe has been a visionary leader of the field of genetics and genomics – not only for plants – for decades www.salk.edu/news-release...

[ 博士が愛した論文] 私も寄稿させて頂きました。当時の植物発生学の常識を覆し、私の研究者人生を変えた論文を熱く解説. I am pleased to introduce the new book, where I, together with 18 other scientists in different fields, discuss about the favorite scientific paper! 😍🌱 natgeo.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/product...

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱 -Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences. Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions. apply.interfolio.com/175001

🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱 -Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences. Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions. apply.interfolio.com/175001

Exciting🌱! Reprogramming stomatal precursor cells to totipotency -- Cooperation of LEC2 with SPEECHLESS induces auxin biosynthesis genes, inciting a bifurcation of stomatal differentiation trajectory into a new, somatic embryo founder cell state. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Excited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So wonderful to catch up w/ long-term friends & colleagues and discuss about exciting topics of plant science in beautiful Denver ⛰️🥰!

Big thanks to Laura Tran for the wonderful coverage of our study in The Scientists Magazine! You captured and delivered the science in our work beautifully. Also big thanks to Lucia Strader for commenting on our findings! 🙏🏻 #STEM #PlantScience #Genomics www.the-scientist.com/plants-boost...

[ 博士が愛した論文] 私も寄稿させて頂きました。当時の植物発生学の常識を覆し、私の研究者人生を変えた論文を熱く解説. I am pleased to introduce the new book, where I, together with 18 other scientists in different fields, discuss about the favorite scientific paper! 😍🌱 natgeo.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/product...

Had fantastic time visiting my colleagues/friends at Univ. Edinburgh Molecular Plant Science Dept. Steven, Karen, Andrew, Justin and more, thanks for your hospitality and sharing exciting science! Great extra day for science after #PPRM2025 and to enjoy beautiful Scotland 🌱🏰🥰

Big thanks to Frank and the TSL receptor crews for organizing such a FANTASTIC meeting in beautiful Edinburgh! Nice to get to know the people and learn about their exciting science. So honored to share history of plant peptides & receptors in development, and some future directions🌱🥰 #PPRM2025

Looking back at some of the inspiring lectures from #PPRM2025 in Edinburgh—such a privilege to learn from so many outstanding researchers. Grateful for this community and the ideas it sparks. @keikoutorii.bsky.social @gittacoaker.bsky.social @marischuster.bsky.social

That’s a wrap for #PPRM2025. Great science, wonderful community and amazing location. Glad it all went smoothly and big thanks to @jackrhodes.bsky.social and @draegermarkus.bsky.social for helping organize the meeting.

Frank @frankmenke.bsky.social opens the PPRM2025. Exciting program ahead!

Hyemin unraveled the mechanisms of heterodimeric partner selectivity among the stomatal master regulatory TFs, their biological significance, and manipulation by small molecules. She is an award-winning confocal microscopist🔬🌱-Congrats, again!

Congratulations, our one-and-only grad student, Dr. Hyemin Seo @texasscience.bsky.social for the successful thesis defense with flying colors 🎉🍾🌱🧬🧪! We are so proud of you🥰

Our latest on brassinosteroid signaling: Ligand binding spectrum, specificity & selectivity of all BR receptors in Arabidopsis. By @albertocaregnato.bsky.social , @hmchen93.bsky.social and our great chemistry collaborators Mirek Kvasnica, Jana Oklestkova and Mirek Strnad.

Torii Lab, Summer 2025🌱🤘 @utexasresearch.bsky.social @hhmi.org

Torii Lab postdoc Dr. Pengfei Bai presenting an atlas of receptor-kinase associatome & proximitome (collaboration w/ one and only @edwardmarcotte.bsky.social), and identification of CME components enforcing stomatal patterning🌱 #PlantBio2025. Our Prereprint 😘: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Torii lab member and ASPB SURF recipient Chiaki Komatsu presenting her poster at the #PlantBio2025. "Proteomic profiling of receptor-like kinase signaling network critical for stomatal morphogenesis". Great job, Chiaki🥰🌱! #PlantScience #UndergraduateResearch

(finally recovered my password--- coming back here updating exciting news in the Torii lab 😘🌱

Professor Keiko Torii, a principal investigator at ITbM, was awarded the IPGSA 2025 Silver Medal www.itbm.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/news/2025...

Delivered a plenary lecture at the JSCB-JSDB Conference, about interplay of cell cycle and cell fate during plant epidermal development🌱. Thank you, organizers for inviting to this fantastic conference! So nice to be back in Nagoya, too. pub.confit.atlas.jp/en/event/jsc...

A peek-a-boo view of Mt. Fuji from my neighborhood. Love y'all, Japan, till next time 😘🗻

One of the best parts of the conference at the university campus - Catching up with a Torii Lab alumnus, Prof. Daniel Sloan at CSU 🐏! Dan joined the Torii Lab 20 years ago as a fresh college graduate- he chromosome walked to the MUTE locus, a master regulator of stomatal differentiation 🥰🌱.

Truly honored and humbled (and genuinely surprised) to be the 2025 IPGSA @ipgsa2025.bsky.social Silver Medalist along w/ the eminent plant biologists, John Bowman and Jenny Russinova. Thank you. Plant peptides rock!! 🥰

Our latest! K63-polyUb of the ERECTA receptor kinase by PUB30/31 is required for the ligand induced receptor endocytosis for stomatal patterning. Our results show that ERECTA signals at the PM. Congrats, Liangliang, Minh & the team🌱! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So proud of you 🥰🎓

ワシントンDCにある米国科学アカデミー(NAS)会員選出の式典にて、アカデミーを創設したリンカーン大統領の本に署名しました。国際会員の一人として、この複雑な時勢の中、今にも増して、米国と日本の科学の交流と振興、若手研究者の育成に尽力する所存です。 bsky.app/profile/keik...

I am deeply honored to join the NAS and to add my name to the book of President Abraham Lincoln. As an International Member, I aspire to strengthen the scientific ties between the USA and Japan, and to contribute to the progress of science in this complex global landscape.

Amazing !! Antiproteolysis peptides (APPs), identified by artificial intelligence, stabilized TF by inhibiting E3 ligase to induce resistance. Targeted Inhibition of Protein Degradation #TIPD #PPSTasis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Commentary www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

エディター仕事で論文４０報ほど捌いて、To do listがゼロになった（別の雑誌のエディター仕事が入ったけど). 急にフワッと楽になった気分。分野へのサービスを頑張った自分を褒めたい。でも、私の論文もなんとかしなくては🥰。もう精神的体力(脳力)と根性の世界だよね。

Our invention of synthetic orthogonal auxin and engineered receptor system (cvxIAA, picocvxIAA-ccvTIR1) is now covered by the US patent. Great collaboration w/ synthetic chemists at Nagoya ITbM! I'm so grateful for this amazing opportunity🥰. patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/fe/ec/4c/bff...

Another insightful webinar part of the wonderful @plantcellatlas.bsky.social Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series. This time @keikoutorii.bsky.social and @justinwwalley.bsky.social gave us a perfect ratio of biology and technology excitement! youtu.be/rE-JP2T0SoA?... #PlantScience #PlantPostdocs